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By: Mrs. W.O. Absher, Pub. 1989 Reprnted 2013, Index, ISBN #0-89308- -'. In the minutes, one will find local office holders being appointed and/or qualified, including clerks of courts, registers of deeds, sheriffs, coroners, etc. The court controlled the levying and expenditure of local taxes, matters dealing with public buildings, roads, bridges, etc. were handled by this court and its selected and summoned juries. Among the other responsibilities of the court found in its minutes were licenses granted to operators of taverns, as well as deeds and bills of sale being acknowledged by the grantors. The court oversaw a wide range of matters involving estates, including probate of wills, settlements of estates and appraisements as well as matters dealing with bastardy and many other valuable bits of information.
Rowland Judd (ca.1720-1806) immigrated (probably from England) to Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania about 1745, moving later to Pittsylvania County, Virginia and then to Surry County and Wilkes County, North Carolina. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Nevada, Washington and elsewhere.
Genealogy of prominent southern families.